A foreigner suffered from a fatal heart attack while swimming in the pool at The Place gym in Phnom Penh on Street 51 near Wat Langka in BKK1 on Wednesday evening. The man is suspected to have suffered from a heart attack while swimming in the pool after exercising in…

Khmer440 received a tip-off early Wednesday that Cambodian police and border officials are hunting for a 57 year old truck driver from Houston, Texas, named Marshall Ray Custard. Clerks at a Pennsylvania gas station called the police on the 2nd of March, 2000, and alerted them that a man driving…

Health Minister Mam Bunheng made an announcement on Monday during a press conference that Cambodia has confirmed its first case of Coronavirus in Cambodia. The infection was confirmed in a Chinese poker player named by the ministry as Jia Jianhua. He had travelled from Wuhan, China, to Sihanoukville on January…

Cambodia has long been known for enjoying some of the most holidays in the world. In this article we take a look at the paid public holidays of 2020 to help plan your getaways accordingly. It’s tough kid, but it’s life, sang the Dead Kennedys. There are a total number…

Cambodia attracts a lot of dodgy characters. There’s a custom among down and out expatriates here of telling tall tales about how rich, important, and successful they are back in their home countries. If a foreigner with any military experience at all washes up in Phnom Penh, he’ll likely tell…

Trude Jacobsen is a Professor at Northern Illinois University who claims to be an expert on Cambodian history and gender studies and sex trafficking and whatnot. Jacobsen teaches classes in women’s studies and portrays herself as an advocate for vulnerable and marginalized members of society. She says on her LinkedIn…

Choosing your next vacation destination is not always the easiest task. There are so many choices and so many places that you may want to visit — all at once if possible. That may not be realistic, but one thing you must remember is that patience gets you through the…

Last week we celebrated Victory over Genocide Day, with 7 January, 1979 being the day that the Vietnamese military overthrew Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh. Here are some photos that we stumbled across, believed to have been taken by the Vietnamese Army Photographers.